Reliable New Polling Shows 48% of Americans Favor the Tea Party

It might seem
like the self-destructive mob known as the Tea Party was a brief
living nightmare from 2010 that was handily smacked back into its
grave by Barack Obama’s epic 2012 re-election win, which also saw
Democrats again winning the Senate with a two-seat gain and the
House GOP majority losing eight seats. Democrats actually won 1.4
million votes more than Republicans in the House, the first time
since 1996 that the GOP held the House while losing the vote
count.

But this is the kind of talk that has long distanced liberal
media elitists from the Tea Party faithful. While the straggling
and embarrassing remains of the Tea Party movement did manage to
help Mitt Romney suffer a more humiliating loss thanks to his
TP-endorsed fringe-right extremist and marathon liar Paul Ryan, the
Tea Party is also the most popular political movement in
America, according to this Tea Party press release:

WASHINGTON D.C. – The nation’s largest tea party organization
commissioned an independent poll to determine whether a national
sample of Americans prefer tea party principles of limited
government to liberal and progressive policies. 48 percent of those
surveyed declared support for “tea party principles” of “limited
government,” “free markets” and “personal responsibility” over 21
percent “progressive, liberal principles” of “big government,”
“higher taxes,” and “more spending.”

It would be interesting to see the questions that led to this
polling victory, but not interesting enough to seek out the
methodology. The important thing is that a website called TheTeaParty.net claims to have
found a polling office in Utah that claims to have found exactly
240 people who agreed with “Tea Party principles,” if not the
actual dead political mob movement. Onward to 2014!